Card-holder.



No. 658,70l. Patented Sept. 25, i900.

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(Application filed Dec. 20, 1899.)

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CARD-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 658,701, datedSeptember 25, 1900.

Application fil d December 20, 1899. Serial No. 740,955. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, TALTER S. CONGDON, a citizen of the-United States,residing at New Bedford, county of Bristol, State of Massachusetts, haveinvented an Improvement in Card-Holders, of which the followingdescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to card-holders; and the object of the inventionis to provide a simple and inexpensive device of this character whichcan be readily and quickly mounted upon a tray or like support and whichis constructed to receive one or more cards and which is adjustable tofit trays or other supports of diiferent thicknesses and to receivecards of varying sizes, and the article is strong and positively holds acard or cards against displacement.

In the drawings, showing the device in a simple embodiment thereof,Figure 1 is a front View. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation, and Fig.3 a plan view, of the same. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detail views showing adifferent form of side piece.

The card-holder is designated in a general way by U, and in the formthereof represented it is in the nature of an open frame comprising thetwo approximately-parallel vertical side bars or pieces A and 'B and thetop and bottom cross-pieces D and E, said cross-pieces beingsubstantially in parallelism and horizontally disposed. The members Dand E are each madein two parts, (denoted by 12 and 13 and 12 and 13,)respectively in sliding connection with each other, each part having aneye or loop to receive the complemental part. Each of the eyes or loopsis denoted by let.

The article as a whole is preferably made from wire, the side bar A andthe parts 12 and 12 being in one piece, while the same applies withrespect to the side bar B and the parts 13 and 13'. Therefore thearticle comprises two main members slidingly connected with each other,and these members have books or equivalent means to receive a card orcards, and by reason of their connection they may be moved toward orfrom each other to receive cards of different widths.

The side bars A and B atv their upper ends are extended outwardly atright angles thereto, as at 15 and 16, and these extensions are bentupon each other, as at 17 and 18, and merge intothe parts 12 and 13 andform inturned hooks upon the upper inner sides of the holder to receivebetween them the upper portion ofa card, as 19. (Shown by dotted linesin Figs. 1, 2, and The lower ends of the sides A and B are projectedoutward at right angles thereto, as shown at 20 and 21, and areafterward bent inward, as at 22 and 23, respectively, in alinement withthe bends l7 and 18, respectively, to form hooks to receive the lowerend of said card. The outer branches of the hooks 22. and 23 arecontinued downward, as at 24 and 25, to form portions of the inner jawsof clips, as F and G, the other portions of the inner jaws being denotedby 26 and 27, and said inner jaws are shown as being of substantially Ushape, as clearly indicated in Fig. 1. The parts 26 and 27 have at theirupper ends the coils 28 and 29, which are adapted to rest against theupper edge of the wall 30 ofa tray, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. Thesecoils 28 and 29 are in the nature of spring connections between theinner and outer jaws of the two clips F and G. The outer jaws aredenoted by 31, and the parts 12' and 13 extend inward toward each otherfrom the same. The coils 28 and 29, which unite the respective branchesof the holding-clips, permit the article to be firmly clamped orsustained upon the wall of a tray or like object, and not only this, butthe jaws can be moved toward or from each other within limits bystretching the spring without affecting the efliciency of said clips.

The card 19 (shown by dotted lines) is adapted to be held between thehooks 17 and 18 and 22 and 23 and rests upon the coils 28 and 29, whichthereby secure it against falling into the tray.

In Figs. 4:, 5, and 6 I have shown a modified form of the device andhave illustrated only one of its side bars, the same being denoted by A.This side bar has at difierent points in its height the inturnedsuperposed books 35 and 36,cooperating with similar hooks upon the complemental side bar. (Not shown.) It is further equipped with a secondpair of hooks, as at 37 and 38, upon the opposite sidethereof,cooperatin g with like hooks upon said other side bar. In thisway the card-holder is furnished with two series of hooks, each seriesbeing adapted to hold a card. In Fig. 6 I have shown the side bar A ashaving a deflected angularly-disposed portion 29 near its lower end. Thepurpose of this is to bring the card in such position that it may besustained by the coil at the lower end of said side bar when the latteris of a different construe: t-ion from that previously described, and inpractice both side bars will be preferably so made. With theseexceptions the modified form of the article partially illustrated inFigs. 4, 5, and 6 is the same as that shown in the other views.

Having described my invention, what I claim,,and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. A card-holder including a plurality of wire side pieces having hooksat the upper ends thereof, the wire being extended inward from the hooksand each inwardly-extended portion having an eye to receive the otherinwardly-extended portion, and said side pieces having hooks near thelowerend thereof, the wire of each side piece being projected downwardand then upward below said hooks to form outer jaws of clamping devices,inner jaws, coiled springs uniting the jaws of the respective clampingdevices, and inwardlyextending projections at the lower ends of theinner jaws, each having a loop to receive the other projection.

2. A card-holder including a plurality of wire side pieces, each sidepiece having a plurality of oppositely-facing hooks, the wire beingextended inward from the upper hooks and each inwardly-extended portionhaving an eye to receive the other inwardlyextended portion, and saidside pieces having deflected portions near their lower ends, and thewire of each side piece being projected downwardly and then upwardlybelow the lower hooks to form outer jaws of clamping devices, innerjaws, coiled springs uniting the jaws of the respective clampingdevices, and inwardly-extended projections at the lower ends of theinner jaws each having aloop to receive the other projection.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER S. CONGDON.

Witnesses:

CHARLES W. SMITH, JUDsoN A. BURT.

